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• This meant that they had to sail with the ocean currents and prevailing winds caused by the rotation of the earth. Gower planned to sail south, then follow the winds westward across the Atlantic to Brazil, then the current that runs down the coast of South America till he reached the powerful current that circles the Antarctic, which would carry him back east into the Indian Ocean. From there he could follow the trade winds north to the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia), and then the annual monsoon wind north to China. The whole voyage would take nearly a year. (查看原文)

  爽罗 2赞 2023-09-19 23:39:52

• There had been three English boys who had been taken to China some years earlier with the idea that they would pick up the language. The best known was James Flint, who had survived and learned enough Chinese to go on to work as an interpreter for the East India Company. However, he had ended up being imprisoned for three years and then expelled after he fronted a failed attempt by the British to extend their trade to the city of Ningbo. Flint never returned to China, and by the time plans were being made for an embassy this one Englishman known to have had a reasonable knowledge of the Chinese language was dead. (查看原文)

  法萊詩蒂 2024-05-26 18:45:44

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